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Project Safe Neighborhoods
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We see articles praising Attorney General John Ashcroft for his efforts promoting the Safe Neighborhoods program, another effort by of the central government to .  The conference this weekend sponsored by the Justice Department is revealing. What is the true motivation behind this ostensibly worthwhile project?

Read the Justice Department Press Release.

The Cato Handbook for Congress (108th) points out that the Safe Neighborhoods program is an illegitimate assumption of power by the central government and provides a vehicle for lawyers dedicated to gun prohibition.  Should Congress elimate this project?

http://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb108/hb108-19.pdf

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02/01/2003